[HPforGrownups] Re: "Some won't like it".

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 129974

eggplant107  wrote:
 
festuco" <vuurdame at x> wrote:

> with the occlumency, where someone
> HAS given him all the anwers, 

Huh? Harry is told it is very important to learn occlumency but he is never told exactly why, the lessons are extremely unpleasant and
taught by someone he neither likes nor trusts, it's little wonder he
doesn't work hard. Who would?

Eggplant   
 
Lynn:
 
In addition, he is being taught by someone who is delighting in humiliating him in the process.  Oh yeah, I'd anxiously be awaiting each lesson.  Can you hear the sarcasm there?
 
Again, Harry is expected to be a good, little, obedient boy without any reason being given for it and is expected to handle it as a mature, wizened adult.  The answer "Because its important" doesn't work with my 6 yo and people expect that to work for Harry?  Heck, it's important to dress warmly, eat right, etc. but not doing so isn't generally life threatening.  How many of us would put ourselves through that whole humiliating and uncomfortable experience without having a clue as to why except that it's important?  
 
Harry told Sirius his concerns and, while steps were taken, Harry had no way to know that the occlumency and his "visions" were related.  Dumbledore has told Harry that Harry has shouldered the burdens of a grown wizard, Harry has done more than was expected, etc. and yet, Harry isn't being told why it is important that he does things.  
 
Add to everything Harry's natural curiousity.  Dumbledore admits it was a mistake not to tell Harry that Voldemort would try to lure him to the Department of Mysteries.  Had Harry known he would have been able to make the connection between that "door" and the occlumency.  On a need to know basis, Harry needed to know.  Did he have to know that whole truth?  No, that would have been dangerous because then Voldemort would have had access to the prophesy.  But how much would Harry's mind have been relieved had he been told that the reason Voldemort was after him was due to a prophesy, that Voldemort is trying to get to a copy of the prophesy and Harry will be told what the prophesy is after it is determined just how strong Voldemort is and whether Voldemort will be able to use the connection between himself and Harry to get to the prophesy.  Harry knows about the connection between him and Voldemort, he would understand that.  So, Harry has been given no information that Voldemort
 doesn't know and yet, the whole situation has been explained enough to give Harry credit for intelligence and still provide for his safety.
 


 

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